Table 1.
Comparison of Illumigene to culture results for 437 consecutive specimens
| No. of specimens | Result by: |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Culture | Illumigene | PCR | |
| 92 | + | + | NDa |
| 331 | − | − | ND |
| 12 | − | + | + |
| 2 | − | + | − |
| 0 | + | − | ND |
a
ND, not done.
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